Dreams and nightmares in healthy adults and in patients with sleep and neurological disorders

F Siclari, K Valli, I Arnulf - The Lancet Neurology, 2020 - thelancet.com
Dreams are experiences that occur during sleep, while we are disconnected from the
environment. Thanks to recent progress in neuroimaging techniques, it is now becoming …

Does consciousness disappear in dreamless sleep?

JM Windt, T Nielsen, E Thompson - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2016 - cell.com
Consciousness is often said to disappear in deep, dreamless sleep. We argue that this
assumption is oversimplified. Unless dreamless sleep is defined as unconscious from the …

[图书][B] Researching dreams: The fundamentals

M Schredl - 2018 - books.google.com
What can be gleaned from the study of our dreams? With research methods in mind—
including the shortcomings and strengths of various strategies—the book presents a …

Peace of mind and anxiety in the waking state are related to the affective content of dreams

P Sikka, H Pesonen, A Revonsuo - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Waking mental well-being is assumed to be tightly linked to sleep and the affective content
of dreams. However, empirical research is scant and has mostly focused on ill-being by …

The interpretation of dream meaning: Resolving ambiguity using Latent Semantic Analysis in a small corpus of text

E Altszyler, S Ribeiro, M Sigman, DF Slezak - Consciousness and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Computer-based dreams content analysis relies on word frequencies within predefined
categories in order to identify different elements in text. As a complementary approach, we …

Social contents in dreams: An empirical test of the Social Simulation Theory

J Tuominen, T Stenberg, A Revonsuo, K Valli - Consciousness and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Social Simulation Theory (SST) considers the function of dreaming to be the
simulation of social events. The Sociality Bias and the Strengthening hypotheses of SST …

EEG frontal alpha asymmetry and dream affect: Alpha oscillations over the right frontal cortex during rem sleep and presleep wakefulness predict anger in REM sleep …

P Sikka, A Revonsuo, V Noreika… - Journal of Neuroscience, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
Affective experiences are central not only to our waking life but also to rapid eye movement
(REM) sleep dreams. Despite our increasing understanding of the neural correlates of …

Does COVID-19 impact the frequency of threatening events in dreams? An exploration of pandemic dreaming in light of contemporary dream theories

J Wang, SE Zemmelman, D Hong, X Feng… - Consciousness and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ninety-one dreams collected during the Covid-19 pandemic (the epidemic-situation sample)
were compared with ninety-one dreams collected before the start of the epidemic (the non …

Negative dream affect is associated with next-day affect level, but not with affect reactivity or affect regulation

P Sikka, H Engelbrektsson, J Zhang… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
There is increasing evidence that sleep plays an important role in affective processing.
However, it is unclear whether dreaming—the subjective experiences we have during sleep …

Investigation on neurobiological mechanisms of dreaming in the new decade

S Scarpelli, V Alfonsi, M Gorgoni, AM Giannini… - Brain Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Dream research has advanced significantly over the last twenty years, thanks to the new
applications of neuroimaging and electrophysiological techniques. Many findings pointed …